Hans Rookmaaker Quotes

#1. But now the question arises, Why has God demanded of man that which he is incapable of performing? The first answer is, Because God refuses to lower His standard to the level of our sinful infirmities.

Arthur W. Pink

#2. The best things in life are not things, but they are our beautiful loving thoughts.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.

Hans Rookmaaker

#4. The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Anton Chekhov

#5. Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

Hans Rookmaaker

#6. How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

Hans Rookmaaker

#7. Each second is rather torturous, as though it will never move on, and as though it will never get any easier, and yet when I look back on it, look where we are. Two weeks on. And I'm doing it. And I still believe I simply cannot.

Cecelia Ahern

#8. If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#9. It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

Giancarlo Esposito

#10. I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Henry Rollins

#11. What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.

Hans Rookmaaker

#12. To eat the forbidden is to disobey the law of God

Sunday Adelaja

#13. By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know and bring this into their paintings ... They always give us more than the facts, more than the eye can see.

Hans Rookmaaker

#14. For a woman to get half as much credit as a man, she has to work twice as hard, and be twice as smart. Fortunately, that isn't difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

#15. Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

Hans Rookmaaker

#16. Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.

Hans Rookmaaker

#17. I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?

Nayvadius Cash

#18. Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.

Hans Rookmaaker

#19. We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.

Hans Rookmaaker

#20. We do not know what we see, but we see what we know.

Hans Rookmaaker

#21. In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.

Michelle Obama

#22. Jesus has prepared not just one Host, but one for everyday of our life. The Hosts for us are ready. Let us not forfeit even one of them

Peter Julian Eymard

#23. Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

Hans Rookmaaker